Hi there,
We have been having some issues over the last few weeks with regards to our Exchange Server and it running low on space.
The drive where we have the 3 main databases saved on has a total of 1624GB and there is only 24GB of storage left as I type but it goes down at a frantic speed. This is because of the index files. When we turn off the Search feature in Exchange and delete the index files it works fine but when we then put the search service back online the space starts to disappear again and we have do remove the index files again to recover space so that we can keep exchange online.
Unfortunatly we cant add any more storage space to the existing drive so there is no way to expand this drive through Hyper-V or I would do it that way and solve the issue.
I have also created another drive and I was going to move the database path of one of the databases but when i do this it takes most of the night and then crashes the exchange server.
We really need a solution to this because at the moment we are having to go in and backup the index files every day and then delete them from exchange every day now.
If anyone has any ideas on how we can fix this issue that would be great as I fear we are getting to a stage where we may loose exchange soon.
Thanks,
David